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Internal market: Iceland once more urged to facilitate maritime traffic

Iceland
must comply with the judgment of the EFTA Court and fulfil its obligations
regarding reporting formalities for ships arriving and departing from EEA ports.
This is the conclusion of a reasoned opinion sent to Iceland by the EFTA
Surveillance Authority (ESA) today.

Iceland has failed to implement Directive
2010/65,
which aims at simplifying and harmonising the administrative procedures applied
to maritime transport by making the electronic transmission of information
standard and by rationalising reporting formalities.

As Iceland should have implemented
the Directive by 1 May 2014, ESA brought the matter before the EFTA Court. In December
2015 the Court found that Iceland had failed to fulfil its obligations by not implementing
Directive 2010/65 on time.

More than 9 months have now passed
since the EFTA Court delivered its judgment, and Iceland has still not adopted
the necessary measures to comply with the ruling. Thus, ESA has sent a reasoned
opinion to Iceland.

Delivering
a reasoned opinion is the second stage in infringement proceedings. ESA may
decide to bring the matter before the EFTA Court again if Iceland fails to take
satisfactory measures within two months of receiving the reasoned opinion.